"I saw Penrose at the fall of the hill coming down from Messines two stretcher bearers where with him. I stopped to ask them where he was shot and they told me, he was shot straight across the chest, from one side to the other, he was very blue in appearance, and the stretcher bearers said he was shot in the heart. I had to leave them and I am not sure if they carried him in, but they had put him in a shell hole. The ground was taken and kept by us."

"Yes, Penrose was clearly dying, though not dead, as he asked faintly for water."

"Penrose was killed by a sniper at Massines on June 7th. He was shot in the forehead and killed instantly. He came over from Australia with me."

*Robert Mowforth Penrose is listed as Robert MORFORTH Penrose in Australian Imperial Force records and on the Australian War Memorial.

He is described on his initial medical report as being 19 years 3 months old, 117 lbs, 5' 4 ½" tall with blue eyes, light brown hair and a fair complexion. He had five vaccination marks on his right arm. His religion was Church of England. Before enlisting he worked as a ship's steward and was in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve.